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" Quotes and Sayings About merit

I won't touch on risky, because that's subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.

Afraid Because Fear Just
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People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.

Afraid Fear Just Merit
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The great human law that in the end recognizes and rewards merit is everlasting and universal.

Merit Universal Human Reward
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It's hard to judge literary merit.

Judge Literary Merit Hard
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A lot of people think big business in America is a bad thing. I think it’s a really good thing. Most people in business are ethical, hard-working, good people. And it’s a meritocracy.

People Think Business America
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Except for the grace of God, I would be nobody - and that grace is the opposite of merit - human labour, education or human wisdom.

Grace God Nobody Merit
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The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.

Anyone Art Better Crown
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Be patient, because the weaknesses of the body are given to us in this world by God for the salvation of the soul. So they are of great merit when they are borne patiently.

Patient Weaknesses Body Given
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I would like my kids to inherit a world where people succeed because of merit and hard work, not entitlement, and where people accept others for what they are and not try to change them.

Accept Because Change Entitlement
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Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.

Difficult Everything More Not
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Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Face Fifty Merit Nature
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It's never going to get better than working opposite an actor like Jeff Bridges. That's as good as it gets. I don't even know what to refer to him as. He's just a great guy. He's iconic on his own merits.

Actor Better Bridges Even
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
Merit Novelty Originality Sincerity
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Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

Amiable Discernment Finding Great
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I judge people based on their capability, honesty, and merit.

Based Capability Honesty Judge
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There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

Case Cases Considered Few
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Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

Ambition Any Cannot Despicable
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Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

Celebrity Merit Punishment Talent
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Infosys is an absolute meritocracy. Even in a meritocracy, other things being equal, you have to give opportunity to the more experienced candidate.

Absolute Being Candidate Equal
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You need to mesh the voices of people with expertise and meritocracy.

Expertise Need People Voices
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The principle of democracy is all about delegation of power by the vast majority of citizens through a few chosen representatives chosen on merit and competence.

About Chosen Citizens Competence
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Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

Least Merit Preservation
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Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

Ambition Been Console Fortune
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The merit in action lies in finishing it to the end.

Merit Action Finishing End
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In Jewish tradition, dying in one’s sleep is called a kiss of God, and dying on the Sabbath is a gift that is merited by piety. For the pious person, my father once wrote, it is a privilege to die.

Tradition Jewish Dying Piety
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He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires a greater stock of religious merit than he could gain by the repetition of ten thousand prayers

Sows Ground Care Diligence
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The chief merit of language is clearness.

Chief Merit Language Clearness
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
Also Duck Effort Hear
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We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that.

Assassins Climate Due I Can
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I believe that every human being is sufficiently depraved that when we get to Heaven, no one will be able to say, 'I merited this.'

Able Being Believe Every
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Not only does Christ take our sins, our debts, and our demerits, but he also gives us his obedience, his assets, and his merits.

Christ Sins Demerits Obedience
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The problem of Africa is we believe in people's report and names but in the context of global development, names and titles have no meaning or merit. What is important is what you DO in order to grow rapidly.

Africa Development Grow Merit
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If I have any merit, it is getting along with individuals, according to their ways and characteristics. At times it involves suppressing yourself. It is painful, but necessary. To be a leader you have got to lead human beings with affection.

Leader Affection Painful Individual
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In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.

Alone Art Done Masters
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There is hardly a better way to avoid discussion than by releasing an argument from the control of the present and by saying that only the future will reveal its merits.

Hardly Better way Discussion Releasing
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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Blown Candle Easily Finds
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Love has no awareness of merit or demerit; it has no scale... Love loves; this is its nature.

Love No awareness Merit Demerit
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All things and all people in life have to sink or swim on their own merits, not their reputation; that just as a wise man can say a foolish thing, a fool can say something wise.

All things People Life Own merits
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You must begin to trust yourself. If you do not then you will forever be looking to others to prove your own merit to you, and you will never be satisfied. You will always be asking others what to do, and at the same time, resenting those from whom you seek such aid.

Trust yourself Forever Looking
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We have to come together to effect social change but we need to change our ORIENTATION in this country first. We need to re-establish a merit-based system across the country and we need to end bigotry.

Social Change Come together Orientation
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The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
The merit All things Their difficulty
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It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.

The business Future Be dangerous Science
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If you study recently industrialized states who have also become leaders in their own right you will see a high level of benevolent autocracy which focuses on meritocracy.

Study recently Industrialized states Become leaders Own right
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Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits.

Prosperity Men Delights Merit
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He, who would free from malice pass his days, must live obscure, and never merit praise.

Free Malice Live Praise
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Christ is the meritorious cause of the bestowing of those good gifts, faith and constancy unto martyrdom, upon you.

Christ Good gifts Faith Constancy
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No one deserves his greater natural capacity nor merits a more favorable starting place in society.

No one Capacity Merits Society
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The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

Power Fortune Happy Success
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